Improved shoe-lacing cutter



UNiTE STATES ATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS C. SUMNER, OF STOUGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IIVIPROVED SHOE-LACING CUTTER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,620, dated February13, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, FRANcIs O. SUMNER, of Stoughton, of the county ofNorfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulMachine for Making Shoe-Lacin gs 5 andI do hereby declare the same to befully described in the following specilication andl represented in theaccompanyingA drawings, of whichy Figure lis a top View, Fig.,2 a sideelevation, and Fig. 3 a rear elevation, of it.

The purpose of my invention is to enable a person to reduce to ashoelacing a piece of leather of almost any form. By means of' themachine scraps ot' leather which would otherwise be cast aside as wastecan thus be utilized to good advantage whatever be their form.

In the drawings, A denotes a tablet or plate inserted on a stand orscrew-clamp, B, for the iiXation of such tablet to a bench. The saidstand has devices projecting beyond the. rear edge of the plate, andsocketed for receiving and supporting two knives, G D, which arearranged parallel to each other and project above the upper surface ofthe plates, in manner as represented. These knives are so applied to theplate as to be capable of being adjusted either nearer to or fartherapart from one another, as circumstances may require, for thefornnationofshoe-lacin gs of different thicknesses or widths.

In using the machine a person is to draw a piece of leather against thetwo knives or their cutting-edges, and to turn it about until they maypass through it in a spiral path.

It is not new to employ a single knife in this manner; but there is agreat advantage gained by the use of two knives, as one of them not onlyserves as a gage for the other and enables the piece ot' leather to beeasily or readily turned on the knives, but the -two produce a strip orshoe-stri ng of uniform wid th, which cannot easily be accomplished by asingle knife.

Besides, with the two knives pieces ot' leather such as cannot well beworked up by a single knife can easily be reduced by employing the twoknives in conjunction with the tablet.

I claim as my inventionl. The above-described new or improvedvshoe-lacing cutter or machine, as composed of the two knives and thetabletor plate, arranged together substantially as described.

2. The combination. and arrangement of the tablets, the two knives, andthe screw-clamp, the whole being substantially as described.

FRANCIS C. SUMNER.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

